10th Tea Tray project

The 10th Tea Tray project is made from chengal wood

Size,width 27" x depth 15.5" and thickness 2 inches and is lightly coated with coconut oil.

a drain hole is added.

9th Tea Tray project

The 9th Tea Tray project is 34" by 19"
carved out from a piece of merbau wood.

Early sketch

The 8th Tea Tray project

It's nice to report that a second piece was also completed during the covid-19 lockdown, 

a Gemunggal wood tea tray,size 29"x 15"x3". 

 

The 7th Tea Tray project

The latest project is a 22.5" x 11.5" x 3.25" size
Gemunggal Wood Tea Tray
ordered by a drop in customer from KL
about 3 months ago.

 

The start of another 2 project

Came back just in time to see the start
of the 7th Chinese Tea Tray
and 2nd Display Tray/Table project
with 2 piece of Gemunggal wood.

 

Projects that have to start right away
because his customer already paid for it!

Sixth Chinese Tea Tray Project

The sixth Tea Tray project is carved out
from  a fine piece of Gemunggal wood
Anthony's friend brought.





8 X 30 Inches



preparation and planning

Fifth Chinese Tea Tray Project

The fifth Tea Tray project
with a piece of mystical gemunggal wood
took quite sometime to complete
with a tea discovery trip to Ceylon for the craftman thrown in the middle.













A difficult wood to work with
because of the small size of the tree.







Continuing with the short chat with Dr Kenneth,
the owner of the tray about the gemunggal wood.
A check on it with a friend of mine in the local timber trade
leads to what the Indians call "The tree for life".
Here in the photos below
my brother David who is on missionary works in India
tracing how the Moringa or Murungai(sounded like gemunggal)
tree looks like in India where it most likely originated.